mah@wu-wien.ac.at (Michael Haberler) (06/16/91)
There's a known bug in ISC 2.2.1 TCP which causes bad IP headers to be sent. It usually causes just unnecessary retransmissions. It's said to be fixed in the next release of ISC tcp But: if you run SLIP to a gateway which has Van Jacobson header compression enabled (like KA9Q with "attach slip ...." with the 'v' option), these bad IP headers also cause the remote gateway to switch to VJ compression. Consequently all TCP connections time out, UDP still works as VJC only is done for TCP headers. Disabling VJ on the gateway flushes the mail queue... - michael -- Michael Haberler mah@wu-wien.ac.at, mah@awiwuw11.bitnet University of Economics and Business Administration A-1090 Vienna, Augasse 2-6 Biz: +43 (1) 31336 x4796 Fax: 347-555 Home: +43 (1) 961-679 (voice & fax) D-Netz: +43 (663) 811-056